Susan Olasky

Susan is WORLD’s story coach and has authored eight historical novels for children. Susan and her husband Marvin live in Austin, Texas. Follow Susan on Twitter @susanolasky.

Little explorers

Children's Books | Four recent picture books reviewed
by Susan Olasky
Posted 9/27/18, 12:49 pm

Sun

Sam Usher

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Four new nonfiction books

Books
by Susan Olasky
Posted 8/30/18, 12:58 pm

Book Girl

Sarah Clarkson

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Aretha Franklin, ‘Queen of Soul,’ has died

by Susan Olasky
Posted 8/16/18, 12:33 pm

The “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin, died Thursday from pancreatic cancer. She was 76.

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Novels and biography

Books

Susan Olasky | 7/05/18, 11:04 am

Clock Dance 

Anne Tyler

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Crime stories

Books | Thrillers from here and abroad

Susan Olasky | 6/14/18, 12:44 am

The Woman in the Window

A.J. Finn

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Pictures and poetry

Children's Books | Four recent picture books

Susan Olasky | 5/24/18, 12:14 pm

The Horse’s Haiku

Michael J. Rosen

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Books about the 1918 flu

Books

Susan Olasky | 5/10/18, 03:20 pm

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It 

Gina Kolata

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Recent nonfiction books

Books

Susan Olasky | 3/29/18, 03:15 pm

iGen: Why today’s Super-Connected Kids are Growing up Less Rebellious, more tolerant, less happy—and completely unprepared for adulthood …

Jean M. Twenge

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Four recent novels

Books

Susan Olasky | 3/15/18, 11:21 am

Every Note Played 

Lisa Genova

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Ages and stages

Children's Books | Four recent picture books

Susan Olasky | 3/01/18, 04:00 pm

I’m a Duck 

Eve Bunting

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